The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor, 322 pages.The introductory story lets us see someone trying unsuccessfully to post a letter in Austria during the war.
We then see the parallel stories of Kate and her father in modern-day L.A. and of young German, Kristoff, and the Jewish family with whom he works, Frederick Faber, his wife and two daughters. Faber is an engraver, frequently employed by the Austrian government. Kristoff is hired to assist him, and begins to learn the craft. Faber's older daughter, Elena, is also secretly teaching herself the art of engraving.
Back in L.A. with Kate where she is trying to deal with her father's increasing dementia, and to find a home for his stamp collection. One stamp in particular leads Kate and a local philetalist, Benjamin, back toward Kristioff's relationship with Elana and their fate when the family runs afoul of the Nazis in the first year after the Anschluss.
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